[rescue] On The Hunt: SBUS Transputer Link Card

[Richard]

Hey just thought I would come back and revisit the thread below. Did
anything ever happen ?

On Fri, 4 Dec 2015, at 10:06 AM, Richard Edwards wrote:
> Very interested however I think the shipping to Australia will be an
> issue.
> 
> On Fri, 4 Dec 2015, at 10:58 AM, Dave McGuire wrote:
> >   Ok, that's *exactly* within the focus of the Large Scale Systems
> > Museum.  If it's available, I'll definitely head up there to pick it up.
> > 
> >               -Dave
> > 
> > On 12/03/2015 06:43 PM, Bob Krzaczek wrote:
> > > Back in July of 2010, I posted here to unload a Parsytec cluster that
> > > was saved from the recycler.  I think it was Ian Finder that found it
> > > prohibitively expensive to ship cross country, but maybe someone else
> > > is closer?  It's pretty nontrivial...
> > > 
> > > Digging through this, I found an off-list email from Damien Carlier
> > > from earlier this year.  Damien, if you're still out there, I
> > > apologize so much for letting that thread go silent.  Please reply to
> > > this thread if you're at all interested!  Richard, Dave, I think
> > > Damien should get first dibs, and then you two can rumble.
> > > 
> > > I ***really*** don't want to part this out, little by little; I'd
> > > rather see it go intact to a good home... or at least in big chunks.
> > > I know you two are only interested in the SBUS link card, but if you
> > > or anyone else on the Rescue list would take more, I'd really
> > > appreciate it.
> > > 
> > > The decription is copied below.  All but the Exabyte is still around,
> > > I believe.  They loved themselves some 8mm when they were using this
> > > gear.
> > > 
> > >     Having been the recipient of some recent good will, I'm going to
> > >     try and keep this ball rolling.  "Paying it forward," if you will.
> > > 
> > >     36 node Parsytec parallel computer, in three MC-3 cabinets.  Each
> > >     cabinet weighs somewhere around 65 lbs, and is about 9-1/2" high,
> > >     22" wide, and 23-1/2" deep.  They stack, of course.
> > > 
> > >     Each MC-3 contains 12 TPM-MPC processor boards.  Each board has a
> > >     T805 Transputer, a PPC 604, and 32 MB local RAM.  There's a spare
> > >     (37th) board, too.
> > > 
> > >     All the manuals, all the cabling.  Software, too, and I'll throw
> > >     in the Exabyte 8mm tape drive that the software is on.
> > > 
> > >     These were the systems with the programmable backplanes.  You
> > >     could arrange your processors in a star, a cube, daisy chain, etc.
> > >     Pretty cool.  Heck, I'll even fish around and dig up the Axil
> > >     (SPARCstation 5 clone) system that front-ended it, if you want.
> > >     :-)
> > > 
> > >     Come on, you know you want to... *laugh*
> > > 
> > >     Bob
> > > 
> > > I might be able to still dig up an/the Exabyte drive, but I'm nearly
> > > certain that everything else offered there is still intact.
> > > 
> > > The zipcode here is 14623.
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > Bob
> > > 
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Bob Krzaczek, Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, RIT
> > > phone +1-585-4757196, email krz at cis.rit.edu, icbm 43.08586N 77.67744W
> > > 
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> > Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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